Twenty years ago, the Deacons’ Wives Ministry got its start in Ja-net Cronkite’s home in Etna. The idea was to put faith in action. “We noticed that our senior women can’t do as much as they once could, and they don’t get noticed as much as they once did. So ...

With the leisure time of summer almost at hand, it’s always a good idea to think about what books you might want to get to idle away the time on the porch swing or to carry along to the camp on the lake. Here are a few titles that offer ...

With the leisure time of summer almost at hand, it’s always a good idea to think about what books you might want to get to idle away the time on the porch swing or to carry along to the camp on the lake. Here are a few titles that offer ...

In one of many successful attempts throughout its history to engage women readers, the Bangor Daily News in 1913 ran on Saturdays and sometimes Tuesdays, a feature page titled Our Magazine of Fashion. This was the era when skirts were narrow at the hem, fell to the ankles and were ...

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Roseanna St. Germain of Bar Harbor learned in 2011 that her grandmother, Darlene, had been diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. Knowing of the treatment regimen that awaited her, Darlene asked St. Germain to crochet a cap for her to wear during the period ...

Many years ago, when my sons were small, I stacked them, much to their delight, in one room — in bunk beds. But it quickly became very clear that changing the bedding on bunk beds was a chore. The bottom bunk was so low that it put a crimp in ...

SEARSPORT, Maine – Astrig Tanguay, director of Fiber College of Maine, will speak about growing, harvesting and preparing natural dyes from the plants in your garden at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at the Penobscot Marine Museum’s Maine Street Gallery, 40 East Main St. Her topic will be “Dyes From ...

Christine Macchi of Maine Fiberats shared this information with By Hand readers: “Winters’ Work: Hooked Rugs, 2010-2013″ by Anne Cox is on view at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St. in Topsham. The public is invited to view the colorful, nature-themed wool rugs through April 27. A reception will be held ...

Of the many items my mother sewed for me, the one I most often wish I still had is a doll’s quilt she fashioned from scraps of fabric. When I visualize the quilt in my memory, I see 3-inch squares of print fabric sporting, here and there, figures in red ...

Mary Jane Mucklestone will conduct a Strand Knitting Traditions Workshop 9 a.m.- noon Saturday, March 23, at Stephen Puillips Memorial Library, Searsport Marine Museum, in Searsport. Stranded knitting, organizers said, occurs throughout the world, including the Shetland Islands, Scandinavia and Central Asia. Bring yarn and needles. Mucklestone is the author ...